Category: Form News
Nursery News 11th January 2021
Today was the start of our first full week back in Nursery and we were continuing with our ‘Cars and Trucks’ topic. We had a very busy, ‘Busy Fingers’. Some of us enjoyed driving vehicles through sand, noticing the patterns that the wheels made. We also drew roads with markings and then cut them out…
Nursery Weekly News 6th January 2021
It has been a busy week welcoming the boys and girls back to Nursery. We have enjoyed hearing all about their Christmas news and have had a great time introducing our new topic work on ‘Transport’, starting with our new theme of ‘Cars and Trucks’. Despite having to make a few changes to our routines…
W/c 7/12/20 Merry Christmas from Form III
The last week of term saw the class getting ready for Christmas. We completed our, ‘Elf training’, by using our maths skills to solve the punchline to some Christmas jokes, and composed some very imaginative winter poetry, using our knowledge of poetry, which we have been focusing on recently.. The class enjoyed reading, ‘Twas the…
Reception Weekly News 12th December
Monday was Filming Day. We enjoyed putting on our costumes and working with Form I and Form II to film the First Christmas story. Back in the classroom, we loved decorating our Christmas bags with stickers. We loved the Christmas story so much that we made our own Nativity scenes. We have loved sharing Christmas…
Nursery Weekly News 7th December
We kicked this week off with a very exciting Marble Jar Treat party! We have worked so very hard over the last half term that the girls and boys had a well earned treat! We played pass the parcel, musical bumps, musical statues and musical chairs! We also danced to Christmas songs and ate some…
Form III investigate soil permeability
Form III had their first go at using a range of scientific equipment today. We used scales for weighing soil and measuring cylinders for water. We also used funnels, filter paper and beakers. We were trying to find out the best soil for our New Zealand farmer friend, Audra. We discovered that loam is the…
W/c 30.11.20 – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
This week has had much more of a Christmas feel. The class’ 3D shape decorations, from last week, have been put up and some have been added to the class tree. The Form III postbox is also starting to fill up with cards for each other. In form time, the class have had the opportunity…
Form V become science presentors
In science, we are really good at presenting out scientific work in written form. We thought we’d have a go at cross-curricular learning and make iMovie videos of an investigation. We still followed our usual rigorous scientific process, but had extra fun filming!
Reception Weekly News 4th December
Ho, Ho, Ho! Christmas has arrived in Reception! On Monday, we had a very Christmassey Busy Fingers. We enjoyed using the dabbers to make Christmas pictures. We used old Christmas cards to make our own Christmas collage and used Tap a Shape to make Christmas pictures. In Literacy, we loved acting out the story of…
Nursery Weekly News 30th November
Christmas has well and truly erupted in Nursery! We have been so busy this morning making cards and candy canes, wreaths and Christmas trees! The classroom looks amazing and the children are working really hard. We practised some writing today, hearing initial sounds and writing them with the correct formation into the Christmas cards. We…
